trip report from the tenth World Wide Web
conference in hong kong

first day

after a "roaring opening" with two dancing lions, mrs. carrie yau
welcomed the 1220 registered attendees and declared the conference officially
as opened. she said: "today, there is no stopping sign on the information
highway" and "in hong kong, on-line government is up and running".

he then asked: "this is the tenth conference, are we done now ?".
"no", he said, "there is still a lot of work to be done". XML requires still a
lot of work (XPointer, XInclude, XML query etc.) and all other areas of the web
as well.

robert cailliau presented a medal of the city of geneva to tim berners
lee to honor him as the inventor of the web.

"XML is the ASCII of the 21st century"

schemas, stylesheets, queries, they are just XML. no special tools
needed to maintain. check out the primary about XML
schema for more details.

the goal of the XML Query working group is to produce a data model for
XML documents, a set of query operators on that data model and a query language
based on these operators. a first draft of the query language (XQuery) was
published in february 2001. it may become a W3C recommendation sometime next
year.

production note:

this trip report was written on a Vadem Clio C-1050
running Windows CE with Pocket Word. It was then transferred to a DELL Latitude
notebook and modified as needed. this document is supposed to be HTML V4.0
compliant.